Fear mongering?!? How many US citizens in the last 10 years have been arrested for building/using/threatening to use explosives? Hello! You can go to sports authority and buy your premade high explosive in unregulated large quantities, pack a car with it, drive it to the Capitol building or target of choice, and set it off with a cell phone from wherever the F you want! It's not fear mongering, it's concern that crazy people do crazy shit with high explosives all the God damn time and we shouldn't make it easier for them to kill indiscriminately. Any terrorist with a fake ID or less could buy this without any trouble and how would we find them after?

There are a whole lot of reasons why I haven't pursued a career as a teacher up until this point. This reinforces my opinion that Teachers are treated incredibly poorly versus the job they perform. Teachers are incredibly important to our society. But our society undervalues them so much it boggles the mind. Charter schools and more testing are not the answer. We need a revitalized public school system.

I wouldn't count myself a success, necessarily. But I'm not destitute, and I work for a company I love. I have a wonderful wife and an Amazing little girl. I almost completed my Masters. I haven't given up hope on that front, but it is on hold. Life will do that. I loved AGS. Was part of Natural or Environmental science in 2000.

She tried to Give her daughter special favors, made her friends husband police chief. Basically decided she was queen. She seems like an ego maniac. Wears a bedazzled hat with her name on it... Ugh... I live in bryant by the way. But not because of white flight. It's cheaper. Got more room and nicer digs for same price I was asked to pay in LR for substantially less good accommodations.

Well shit. Never thought I'd see my state go completely red. Ignorance wins out it appears. Hopefully some people will come to their senses when the Repubs destroy what little dignity Arkansas had left...

Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, injured in a bicycle accident last week near his home, sent me an update this morning from his iPad.

An update to criticism of President Trump's terrible judicial appointments: Even Trump's team realized what a poor choice Alabama lawyer Brett Talley was for the federal bench in Alabama. His nomination has been withdrawn, NPR has reported:

Part one of Children in Crisis: An Arkansas Times Special Investigation.

‘Making my own decisions is what got me here.’

Plaintiffs' lawyers made their case today to continue to trial with the civil suit over then-Judge Mike Maggio's reduction of a $5.2 million jury verdict in a nursing home negligence case to $1 million, a reduction he said he made in return for campaign contributions from the nursing home's owner.